girlishly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English girl

Proto-Indo-European *-iskos

Proto-Germanic *-iskaz

Proto-West Germanic *-isk

Old English -isċ

Middle English -ish

English -ish

English girlish

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English girlishly

From girlish + -ly.

Adverb

girlishly (comparative more girlishly, superlative most girlishly)

1. In a girlish manner.

   Synonyms: (rare) girlily, (rare) girly

   • 1879, George Eliot, chapter 12, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such‎^[1]:

     Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal."

   • 1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 10, in World So Wide‎^[2]:

     "What's worse, I suppose I girlishly trilled all this to him, and too often. […] "

Translations

Translations

• Polish: po babsku